Episode 8 of the Suburban Dance Radio show on 92.5 KOWS FM. My show airs every other Tuesday at 8pm Pacific time in Santa Rosa, California in Sonoma County and also streams online. I am archiving shows on Mixcloud about a week later. I’m a little behind right now… This...
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The 25th Anniversary edition of the classic 1995 Brown Cuts Neighbors EP Squeeze Out Another Twinkle is out today, Friday August 28th. Contains the classic tracks “X Simple X” and the Gypsy punk live favorite “We Hunted For Vests in Charcoal”. First time ever...
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007 Seventh episode of the Suburban Dance Radio show on 92.5 KOWS FM Airs every other Tuesday at 8pm Pacific time on the air in Santa Rosa, California in Sonoma County and streaming online. I am archiving shows on Mixcloud about a week later. This episode has a license to...
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The soundtrack to your suburban hell!!! The Devil is in your bird bath. The undead emerge from your septic tank. The damned mower won’t start. This is Radio 666. It’s time to get nervous to a cursed soundtrack of post punk, jazz, funk, experimental, hip hop, blues, dub, noise rock...
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Suburban Dance Radio is on every other Tuesday on KOWS Community Radio 92.5 FM in Santa Rosa, CA at 8pm up in Sonoma County and streaming online. I am archiving shows on Mixcloud about a week later. The soundtrack to your suburban existence. Scrape those desiccated lizard parts off the...
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Suburban Dance Radio is on every even Tuesday on KOWS Community Radio 92.5 FM in Santa Rosa, CA at 8pm up in Sonoma County and streaming online. I am archiving shows on Mixcloud about a week later. Shows will also appear for up to a month on my SoundCloud page. The soundtrack to your...
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Hell yes, Black Lives Matter! We should not need to say this anymore. Damn straight they fucking matter. This shit-show needs to be shut down. The police need to be demilitarized and held accountable for their performance by the citizens they are supposed to protect. The president needs to be...
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All vinyl special! Suburban Dance Radio is on every even Tuesday on KOWS Community Radio 92.5 FM in Santa Rosa, CA at 8pm up in Sonoma County and streaming online. I am archiving shows on Mixcloud about a week later. Shows will also appear for up to a month on my SoundCloud page...
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Inspired by a series of posts by the artist José Villarrubia under the title “From a colorist’s perspective,” I promised myself I would scan and post some vintage comic coloring-related artifacts that I have. The first, and possibly most interesting, is this four page color...
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I have returned to the airwaves. Suburban Dance Radio is on every even Tuesday on KOWS Community Radio 92.5 FM in Santa Rosa, CA at 8pm up in Sonoma County and streaming online. I am archiving shows on Mixcloud about a week later. Shows will also appear for up to a month on my SoundCloud...
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OK. More likely than not you are not bringing in a box of anything to share with anyone at anything like an office, but today is the day that I re-release my 1997 cassette LP thing Master of the Pandowdie out into the world. So, that is very special to me. It is a sloppy
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I started doing a regular radio show again, since club DJ gigs are hard to come by… Massive thanks to Don Campau and the folks at KOWS Community Radio in Santa Rosa, CA for letting me do my thing. I’m on every even Tuesday on 92.5 FM at 8pm up in Sonoma County and streaming
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Yes! Wow Cool is still open. We are taking orders and shipping out via the US Postal Service once or twice a week. Online ordering is available ’round-the-clock. We will soon be adding a TON of new and old books to the site. We’re actually pretty backlogged with getting them listed...
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Guest artist: Steve Lafler Check out Steve Lafler’s comics on Wow Cool
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It’s new. It is here. There hasn’t been a new issue in a bit over two years. This one is novel-length. We also finally listed 58 online. When we got it there was a zine show in a couple days, then we just held it for the shop. Or maybe we were just lazy. Many
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Out today as a pay-what-you-want download on Bandcamp. There have been stranger Valentine’s day gifts. Rereleased in digital form today — in the only release since the original limited run cassette tape from 1990 — is Brown Cuts Neighbors’ second recording with the...
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It has certainly been a tumultuous year here at Wow Cool. Not least of all because the physical “here” has changed. Sadly the Wow Cool Alternative Comics physical shop in Cupertino, California closed its doors after six great years. We also left the offices that we had been in for...
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Beltsander Girls by Brown Cuts Neighbors The Brown Cuts Neighbors has a long and strange history from its founding in 1980 by the pre-double digit siblings Jason and Colleen Martin, through it’s transformation into a proper band in the late 80s—when James Kopta joined up with Jason...
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The British titans of graphic novel writing in our time will be mixing it up on the ones and twos for digital radio station BBC 6Music this month. Alan Moore will be sitting in for Iggy Pop on the Confidential show, Friday October 4; and, Neil Gaiman will be a guest on the Paperback Writers show...
Read moreJohn Holmstom is putting together his first solo art exhibition since 1981! “All The Stuff I Did With The Ramones” is on exhibit at The Great Frog/72 Orchard Gallery from September 5th to October 17th. The focus is on all the work he did with the Ramones over the years (as you might...
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Decades of inadequate political action have led to a climate and ecological emergency that poses an unprecedented existential threat to humanity and all life on Earth — “politics as usual” will not meet the challenge we face. This new film with an exclusive soundtrack from Massive Attack...
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On Sunday August 18, Wow Cool house band nickname: Rebel—in the form of founding members Marc Arsenault and Michael Keegan—played their first show in eight years. We can’t believe it’s been that long either. California’s Capital City welcomed us back for an early afternoon set...
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The exhibitor list is now live for SPX Small Press Expo 2019. Go meet Joel Orff and Robin Enrico at A2 – the Alternative Comics table! Joel will debut his new book Twice Shy. Robin will be hawking copies of the new collection of his classic mini comic series Life of Vice. Other Alternative...
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Wow Cool house band nickname: Rebel will be returning to live performance this Sunday after too long of a break. “The Norcal Noisefest Crew bring you the loudest breakfast in the valley… SACRAMENTO AUDIO WAFFLE 57, where we find our heroes eating delicious waffles and drinking...
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